A little over eight years ago, an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, but here, he's controlling his wheelchair with his mind.
Zhang had surgery to get a brain-computer interface , or BCI from a Shanghai-based startup called NeuroXess.
Training is part of a new wave of clinical trials in China, hoping to make the next breakthrough in BCI tech.
US companies certainly had a head start in developing these systems and testing these systems in humans, but China is certainly catching up very rapidly.
Ultimately, I think this helps mitigate the civilizational risk of artificial intelligence.
Tiny electrodes are carefully cemented to the scalp to detect and record the delicate pulses from the human brain.
BCI's read and decode those signals to control an external device like a tablet or prosthetic limb .
BCI's come in varying degrees of invasiveness .
BCI companies use algorithms to filter out background chatter and accurately identify the brain's instructions.
And in March of 2026, China approved its first invasive BCI for commercial use , a signal that it's betting big on this tech.
Those electrodes are connected to a brain chip that does all the signal processing .
That's because over time, the brain forms scar tissue around the implant, which can damage brain cells and block signals to the device.
The bar for regulatory approval is very high.
Oh, and a $165 million brain science fund to back the fledgling industry .
Mass adoption of this tech, whether invasive or non-invasive, raises questions about the future of neural privacy .
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